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La façade ouest de la cathédrale Notre-Dame d'Amiens comporte 3 portails. Un portail central qui s'ouvre sur la nef, et deux portails sous les tours nord et sud qui s'ouvrent sur les bas-côtés de la cathédrale. Au-dessus de chaque portail se trouve un tympan, le central est un tympan du Jugement Dernier, le nord le transfert des reliques de St Firmin, et le portail sud représente la Vierge Marie.

 

3 mars 2011

Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981 for the coherence of its plan, and the beauty of its three-tier interior elevation Notre-Dame d'Amiens, is the tallest completed Gothic church and largest cathedral in France. The Romanesque cathedral had been destroyed by fire in 1218, and Bishop Evrard de Fouilly employed Robert de Luzarches as the architect to build the new cathedral in the Gothic style to house the head of John the Baptist which had been bought back as a relic by Wallon de Sarton returning from Constantinople in 1206 following the 4th crusade.

 

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